Vientiane Kitchen Restaurant

Chinatown

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January 29th 2006
It's Sunday afternoon and I am sitting in the lobby of my hotel in Chiang Mai. I could share about my experience last night on the sleeper train to Chiang Mai, or stumbling upon a Chinese New Year parade in Chiang Mai this morning, or the challenge of finding an available hotel room in this city during the Chinese New Year. But instead I am going to save all that for my next blog entry. F ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more